Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , unlike many of the promises that are made over the clinking of glasses and in the glow of a few drinks , and despite the fact that Pam and Tony lived near Thurso in the north of Scotland , Wendy was working in Bristol and I lived in Shetland , we got in touch later and laid firm plans for a trip to Lapland . |
| 2 | We talked a lot and made great plans for a concert tour but in the end the dates were n't right . |
| 3 | There is a fascinating groundswell of feeling on the avant-garde led by Martin Margiela with his elaborately deconstructed and reconstructed flea-market treasures for a fashion that is fundamentally different from the designerisms of the Eighties . |
| 4 | In its final statement the Council rejected United States and Israeli proposals for a regional peace conference and reiterated previous demands for a UN-supervised international conference on the Middle East , to be attended by , among others , the PLO and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council . |
| 5 | On Oct. 28 the Geneva negotiators formally rejected the division of Bosnia-Hercegovina into three " ethnic-/confessionally-based republics " and presented constitutional proposals for a decentralized Bosnia-Hercegovina aimed at preserving its territorial integrity . |